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The televised song and dance talent show may provoke controversy in the Muslim-majority country, where an increasingly vocal and violent minority consider singing and dancing strictly against Islam. Read More »

Izzat Majeed grew up in his native Pakistan listening to the sounds of Ella, Dizzy and the Duke. But it was Dave Brubeck, playing in the auditorium of Lahore’s Nido Hotel next to Majeed’s home, who touched the young man. Read More »

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager schoolgirl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban last year, will open the Library of Birmingham in the U.K. Tuesday.

The 16-year-old will attend an opening ceremony in the city’s Centenary Square, in front of the new library, which cost £188.8 million ($293 million) and covers 31,000 square meters, making it one of the biggest public libraries in the world, the library said. Read More »